Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 16

kuàizi («KWIGH-dz») are chopsticks; upright in rice they look like incense at a funeral, and pointing them or tapping the bowl is bad manners.

Who acts: kuàizi, families, pointing · What happens: be, look, point, tap · To what, where: chopsticks, rice, families, bowl, bad manners

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kuàizi, families, pointing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kuàizi	kuàizi	X	Foreign=Yes	10 chopsticks	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	1 kuàizi	punct
3	«	«	X	_	1 kuàizi	appos
4	KWIGH	kwigh	X	_	3 «	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dz	punct
6	dz	dz	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 »	compound
7	»	»	X	_	3 «	flat
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 kuàizi	punct
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chopsticks	cop
10	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 upright	punct
12	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chopsticks	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 rice	case
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 upright	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 look	nsubj
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rice	acl:relcl
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 incense	case
18	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 funeral	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 funeral	det
21	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 incense	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 manners	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pointing	cc
24	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 manners	csubj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pointing	obj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 tapping	cc
27	tapping	tap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 pointing	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bowl	det
29	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tapping	obj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 manners	cop
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 manners	amod
32	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 upright	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chopsticks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	kuàizi	chopsticks			tree rules
2	be		kuàizi not said here		rice		tree rules
3	look	present	families = family	rice not said here		like incense at a funeral	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rice=Attribute
4	point	gerund		families = family			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	tap	gerund		the bowl			vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bowl=Location
6	is a	present	pointing	bad manners			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chinese-street:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:16.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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